Project Blog – Honda Canada Headquarters
As it’s almost 15 years that Honda Canada Headquarters achieved LEED Gold Certification, here’s a look back at one of our early LEED projects we are proud to have provided commissioning for. Completed in spring 2010, the 46,450-square-metre campus has already received three awards: the 2011 ED+C (Environmental Design + Construction) Excellence in Design Awards program for outstanding sustainable design techniques; a Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) Citation 2011; and a Markham Design Excellence 2010 Award. This was Honda’s first LEED certified project in Canada.
The headquarters campus, designed by the joint venture team of HOK / ZAS Architects, brings together Honda Canada’s head office building, technical centre, and parts distribution centre. The entire complex uses 33 per cent less energy than a similar building designed to code and 44 per cent less water for plumbing fixtures than a typical office building. Over 8,000 plants, shrubs and trees were planted on the 53-acre site. The irrigation system retrieves recycled surface water through a bio-filter system. More than 75 per cent of construction and land clearing debris was diverted from landfill.
HVAC systems include for:
- Central chilled water plant (800 tons cooling) serving year-round AHUs, compartment units & fan coil units
- Central heating plant (19,400 Mbh gas-fired condensing boilers) serving AHUs, VAV boxes, under floor fan coils & terminal units for space heating
- Computer Room AC (CRAC) units with dry coolers serving data rooms
- Custom AHUs with SF & RF VSDs, heat recovery (on 100% OA applications) & steam humidification
- 16 compartment units with chilled water coils serving the office UAD system
- Over 500 floor VAV boxes with reheat coils & heating only FCUs & over 30 miscellaneous exhaust systems
- Glycol systems for AHU recovery coils
Services provided by CFMS:
- Verification of DDC system and BAS
- Performance testing of HVAC systems
- Co-ordination of mechanical and electrical equipment and systems training
- Preparation and presentation of systems re-commissioning manual
- Seasonal performance testing of HVAC systems